From the teacher – Unlike most workshops, which happen at the revision stage, “Actually Writing” teaches craft at the point of creation. To do this, I will open the vault to an extensive corpus of practices designed to help us break free of habitual patterns, and surprise ourselves on the page. These practices lower the pressure, elevate the excitement, and participants emerge with a fundamental skill set that can’t be acquired though “workshopping.”
Participants can register for any session of Actually Writing at any time. Like taking yoga, each class is self-contained, designed for anyone (in any genre) to jump in and receive the full benefits what is being taught. For those who attend weekly, the course follows a natural arc, enabling participants to train and transform themselves as writers.
From the students:
“It turns you inside out—wisely, gently and insistently. It’s the truest writing I’ve ever done. And it made me feel alive.”
“A phenomenal workshop. I was quite taken, moved, and frequently overwhelmed by the whole experience.”
“The perfect complement to my MFA education.”
Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, dozens of nonfiction features and articles, and This Body I Wore, a forthcoming memoir from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her writing has appeared in leading journals, anthologies and newspapers including The New Yorker, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School, and the Donald Murray prize for writing pedagogy. www.dianagoetsch.com
Read about the first set of these classes, which Diana started at the beginning of the pandemic, here: “Welcome Mongolia!”
WHEN
Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm ET
HOW MUCH
$20 per session
WHERE
Zoom
* off on December 24th or December 31st.